The Spiral Jalapeño Hot Dog Galaxy — A Haunted Trip to Space

A CHOICE-FILLED ADVENTURE STORY

THE SPIRAL JALAPE ÑO HOT DOG GALAXY— A Haunted Trip to Space

Written by Students of MR. SCOTT’S 5TH GRADE CLASS at UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY ELLEN THOMPSON CAMPUS

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You take a haunted spaceship to a Treasure Island on Mars. The spaceship is large, as big as a skyscraper! There is a ghost on the spaceship and the lights are flickering. You feel scared and you are shaking. You start to panic in the haunted spaceship, and see that the treasure is also shaking!

You put your space helmet on and leave the spaceship. In the distance, you see pirates on the Treasure Island. You could explore space in your spacesuit or land on Mars to find the Treasure Island.

If you decide to explore space in your spacesuit, turn to page 2.

If you decide to land on Mars, turn to page 3.

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You decide to explore space in your spacesuit.

You are in the spiral jalapeño hot dog galaxy!

You see hot dogs and jalapeños floating around.

You find a space hot dog to eat. The aliens made the hot dogs for you and sent them in a peace treaty. The aliens disappeared after they made them but want you to leave their galaxy because they were there first. The aliens have four big eyes, they are green, and look like pit bulls. You are trying to colonize the spiral jalapeño hot dog galaxy.

You see more food, and you want to eat all of the ribs and lollipops that you find in the galaxy.

This galaxy does not have COVID-19.

The hot dogs that the aliens gave you were a trick, and they make you sick when you eat them. Then you start turning into an alien! You get back onto the spaceship and you do not want to be an alien. You have to turn the ship into a time travel machine. You can go back to 2018 to stop COVID-19, or you can travel to the future!

If you decide to travel back to 2018 to stop COVID-19, turn to page 4.

If you decide to travel to the future, turn to page 5.

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The spaceship crashes into the treasure island on Mars and explodes making a big KABOOM! You go and explore and find a treasure chest filled with food and gold. There are coconuts, live crabs, and cheese! The combined smells make it smell like a cheese farm. The alien pirates want the treasure though so you start to run away from the alien pirates. But you are in space so you float to get away.

You find a merchant who has been here for a million years and sells many tools. He says, “I will help you build your rocket if you give me Moon Mush” (which is kind of like astronaut ice cream). You now have to find the Moon Mush to get your ship fixed. Moon Mush is blue and smells like strawberries. You find out the alien pirates have Moon Mush.

If you decide to trade with the pirates, turn to page 7.

If you decide to go search Mars for Moon Mush, turn to page 9.

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Your first job is to warn people about COVID-19! You also need to find something that turns you back to human because you don’t want to be an alien anymore.

You find a magic magician who can help you turn back into humans. He gives you a magic potion. As you drink it, he casts a spell, and when you’re done drinking it, you’re human again!

Now you can focus on warning people about the aliens you met in outer space, and COVID-19 too. You make a poster about COVID-19 to share with the President to warn him about it! He does not believe the poster. You get back into the time machine to go even further back into space, to prevent Donald Trump from becoming President. You keep him in his house by taking away his keys until election day, so he cannot be President.

You find a medicine that you mix with the air. When it mixes with the air, it removes all the COVID-19 virus from the air! Schools never close, and tons of lives are saved.

To lure the aliens into a trap, you put out hot dogs, ribs, and lollipops. You put a potion into the food so when the aliens eat the food, they turn into humans too! Now you can work together with the aliens to build a town for everyone to live together. Everyone in this town works together and cares about each other.

If you decide to stay in town, write your own ending.

If you decide to move on and continue exploring space,

write your own ending.

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(start again at page 1)

You decide to travel to the future in your timetraveling spaceship. You travel to the year 2025.

Once you get there, you see that the galaxy has lots of technology and magic. There are bright and dark spots that are combining together with advanced technology. Once you make it to the future, you have to study a lot on your spaceship to learn how to make potions.

While studying on the spaceship, you hear lots of noises. You find the aliens from the first galaxy followed you to 2025 and want to fight you. You bring out your lions and cheetahs to help you fight the hot dog aliens. The lion has purple fur and a white body, and he has a big black nose and a white face. He looks kind of sick. The cheetah looks like a cheetah-lion with purple and white stripes like a zebra and teal eyes. When you reach your hand out to the pets they freeze.

You get back to work on your potion in the spaceship. The potion you want to make turns you back into an old human, but it makes you immortal and gives you super powers! To make the potion you need giant and smelly toenails, a witches nose, and it smells like a dumpster. The potion has no taste. You then add water, pepper dust, and crushed up crystals from different dimensions. You can take different amounts of the potion for different results. If you want to be old you drink 80% of the potion, and if you want to go back to your young self and have superpowers, you have to drink the whole thing.

Continued on next page.

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You can’t hold the potion in your mouth or give it to anybody else or else you will turn into a baby forever.

If you decide to drink 80% of the potion,

write your own ending.

If you decide to drink 100% of the potion,

write your own ending.

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(start again at page 1)

You choose to trade treasure with pirates to get Moon Mush. You go to visit the pirates. You decide which treasure you’re going to keep and which treasure you’re going to give to the pirates.

The pirates say they will give you Moon Mush.

You take the Moon Mush back to the merchant, but it’s fake. You think about throwing the Moon Mush out into space, but you decide to store it because it is still worth something.

The merchant gives you a second chance and tells you that you can trade the fake Moon Mush for real Moon Mush. You return to the pirates to try to trade it again and give them more treasure for real moon mush.

You are about to give the real moon mush to the merchant when a meteor crashes into Mars.

Your ship and the Moon Mush gets destroyed.

The merchant tells you that parts of your ship are missing like the wheels, wings, and the windows. You need to find them. You wonder if they are lying around somewhere or if someone has them.

You check to see if the pirates have the pieces of your spaceship. They say no. You go to explore everywhere the pirates have been to make sure they weren’t lying. You find 2 pieces, but still need to find 2 more. The explosion was pretty big so they went pretty far.

Continued on next page.

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You think some more pieces might be on the moon and that you could ask the pirates for a ride or you can continue looking on Mars.

If you decide to search on the moon for your ship pieces,

write your own ending.

If you decide to continue searching on Mars,

write your own ending.

8

(start again at page 1)

The Moon Mush is sold at a store on mars. The store is very far from the merchant so you have to ride your bike to get there. The ice cream store is called “The Moon Mush Ice Cream Shop.” When you get to the store, it is super cold so that the ice cream does not melt.

The ice cream store smells very sweet. The Moon Mush is served in a special way. Instead of being served in a cone, it is served in a special diamond bowl. You eat the Moon Mush with a golden spoon.

If you decide to eat the blue Moon Mush that turns you into an alien pirate, write your own ending.

If you decide to eat the strawberry Moon Mush,

write your own ending.

9

(start again at page 1)

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